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Old 04-03-19, 06:44 AM
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Wine guy here. One of the things I don't like about bike touring in PA is that it can be difficult to find wine for camp at the end of the day, or even at all. It's gotten somewhat easier since the state started allowing grocery stores to obtain special licenses to sell wine a few years ago, but you generally only find that in grocery stores. Absent one of those, you are stuck with state-controlled liquor stores. In rural areas, they can be few and far between. If you do happen to come across one, it may only be open limited hours on limited days. And it's no fun to carry a heavy bottle of wine a long distance to camp. I often end up getting a small, plastic bottle of bourbon if I still have a long way to go. It just boggles my mind that it can be easier to get a bottle of wine in a small town in Montana than in rural PA.

And I will leave you with this fun factoid which I believe is still true: PA is largest single purchaser of wine and spirits in the U.S.
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